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Association for Historical Fencing (AHF)

 

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Treatises Available Online

Manual of Bayonet Exercise

Digital and Multimedia Center, Michigan State University Libraries: Fencing Collection

AEMMA online Library

Catalogue des traités numérisés d'escrime & de lutte

1639 Pallas Armata, The Gentleman's Armorie
1638 La Bandiera (Francesco Ferdinando Alfieri)
1617 Schoole of the Noble and Worthy Science of Defence (Joseph Swetnam)

The following PDF files are courtesy of William Wilson:

1536Achille MarozzoOpera Nova
1553Camillo AgrippaTrattato di Scienza d'Arme
1569Hieronimo de CarranzaDe la filosofia de las Armas...
1570Giacomo Di GrassiRagion Di Adoprar
1606Nicoletto GigantiTeatro
1606Salvator FabrisDe Lo Schermo Overo Scienza d'Arme
1610Ridolfo Capo FerroGran Simulacro
1653Francesco AlfieriL'Arte di ben Maneggiare La Spada
1653D. Nicolas TamarizCartilla, Y Luz En la Verdadera Destreza -- in the future we will be adding an analysis and translation of sections from this text

Images, Film and Video

The British Pathe company has made thousands of hours of newsreel footage available for downloading. Preview versions of most footage can be downloaded for free. Search for "fencing" and you'll find some very interesting films from the 1920's and 30's.

Images from the US Library of Congress of fencers from 1902-1933 from Chicago Daily News (search under keyword "fencers")

Photocopies of Period Treatises

Jared Kirby's Book List

Patri J. Pugliese's Historic Fencing Treatises

British Federation of Historical Swordplay treatises

More resources will be added on an ongoing basis as they become available.